My Final Open House As Your State Representative

Kaufman’s OPEN HOUSE Presents:
The Unfinished Agenda: Challenges and Opportunities for My Successor

OPEN HOUSE,” Representative Jay Kaufman’s long-running public policy series crosses the finish line on Thursday, December 13th from 7 to 8:30PM at the Lexington Depot. Join him and the conversation as he reflects on twenty-four years with “The Unfinished Agenda: Challenges and Opportunities for My Successor.”

What are the successes and failures of the past 24 years? What policies and practices have been the most challenging? How have changing State House politics impacted decision-making? How has the national political scene affected Massachusetts in particular, state legislatures in general? What are the big issues ahead for the Massachusetts legislature? What leadership lessons are there?

As always, the forum will take its shape largely from questions from the audience. Questions can also be submitted in advance by email, jay.kaufman@mahouse.gov, or tweet your questions to @repjaykaufman. Join us Thursday, December 13th from 7 to 8:30PM at the Lexington Depot (13 Depot Square, Lexington, MA 02420).

Additionally, the Lexington Democratic Town Committee and Progressive Democrats of Massachusetts invite the public to linger after the conversation to bid adieu to our community’s long-serving Representative.

In 1997, OPEN HOUSE was awarded the prestigious Beacon Award, cable television’s equivalentof an Emmy. The series was also named the best television series by Massachusetts Cable Television Commission. The OPEN HOUSE series is produced through a partnership between Representative Kaufman and LexMedia which records the forums for broadcast in Lexington and Woburn.

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever did.

Margaret Mead

I'm all for progress. It's change I can't stand.

Mark Twain

Other people see things and say: 'why?' But I dream things that never were and say 'why not?'

G.B. Shaw

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me.

Pastor Martin Niemoller

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Demosthenes

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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis

Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.

Cornel West

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Robert Kennedy

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Frederick Douglass

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